Playing God, Without His Credentials…

What makes Pharaoh’s command to kill baby boys in the time of Moses evil? The simple answer is selfishness. What makes the Egyptian midwives refusal to honor his demand of killing the babies righteous? They feared God. Proof of what they did was right, going against their leader’s decree, was God rewarding them with their own children. Does any of this seem familiar? Seems a lot like modern day America, doesn’t it? Pro-choice legislation being opposed by pro-life opposition. Just because it’s legal doesn’t justify it being right. Just because the leader of our country believes it’s okay to murder a baby in the womb a day before it’s born, doesn’t make it right. The Egyptians reason for murdering these baby boys was to prevent a fear of them rebellion due to their harsh treatment of the Israelites (still unjustified). But here in America the reason is because a woman has a right to murder her own child if she doesn’t want it? We live in a sick society. And sadly those that believe it are just as guilty as those that allow it and do it. God loves children. A baby is the only thing God can use to make men and women. Think about that for a second and let it sink in. Murder is always a selfish act. It’s playing God, without His credentials.

8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became. 13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. 14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah: 16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”19 “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.”20 So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful. 21 And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.” Exodus 1:8-22